Year in Review

2019 was a pretty stagnant year for the heavyweight division. The top-five mostly stayed the same, and the division was largely held up by Daniel Cormier, whose injury delayed a title fight until August. Add in Stipe Miocic’s rematch win to set up a trilogy, and the division was almost completely hamstrung. Fortunately, if there’s any division that can handle a logjam at the top, it’s heavyweight since most of the top contenders already have had a shot at the title.

In other developments, we saw a few old dogs finally drop out of the rankings and the emergence of a few younger talents, including Jairzinho Rozenstruik, who’s been a shot of life into an otherwise listless division.